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TWO AUNT EMILYS; 



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TWO AVM JCMILYS; 07?, QUITS. ' <"^^ 

CAST OF ClIAUACTEnS. , ^ | 

Aunt Emily Deaf as a post 

Helkn :^[ouTOx[ lYnj^ (^„ eye for money 

Gracp: Morton) 

Belle Morton Beady for fun 

Mrs. Julia Morton Bnled by her daughters 

Miss Emily Morris The lady principal 

gij^DY The Irish housemaid 

j)i^Aii The colored cook 

Time in representation— Tliirty minutes. 

C0STU3fES. 

Aunt Emily— Old fashioned black dress, cap and black silk apron. 
Helen and Grace— Tennis costumes. 
Beile and Miss Morris— Trayeling costumes. 
Mrs. Morton — Stylish house-dress. 

Biddj' — Lar^e fiojured print dress; red wig; rnddy complexion, 
Dinah— lied dress; while apron; white neckerchief; yellow 
turban. 

PBOPEBTIES. 

Sofa; sofa pillow; rockino; chair; duster; shawl; telegram; flour; 
bag of onions; package of cayenne pepper ; large dish of pudding. 



SYNOPSIS. 
Qunrrel between Dinah and Biddy. Aunt Emily, whose money the 
girls are tryin? to get. Mrs. Morton and the telegram. Dismay of Helen 
jind Grace. Dinah lays down the lavv. Onions and cayenne pepper. 
Arrival of Belle Morton and her teacher, who is the rich Aunt Emily. 
Belle's joke on Aunt Emily. The long unheard of sister found. Belle's 
joke on the girls discovered. The poor Aunt Emily secures a home. 
Uelle gets eveu and calls it "Quits." 



STA GE DIRECTIONS. 

R., mean? Bight; t-.. Left; R. h., Right Hand; l. h., Left Hand; c, Centre; s. b.; 
(2d F..] !;c(Oi)d F.iitrniicc; r. e., Upper Entrance; m. n,, Middle Door; f., the Flat 
r. r., L'oorin Elat; e. c, Bight of Centre; l.c, Left of Centre. 

F. R. C. c. L. c. u 

%* Tlie reader is surporcd to Ic upon the stage facing the audience. 



Two flunt Emilys; or, Quits. 

^CENE — Interior of private parlor 

Biddy discovered seated in rocker, singing, rocking eind violently heating 

time with duster. 

Enter, Dixah, l, 

Dinah, (standing icith hands on hips — aside) I'clare! I nebbei 
did see sich a good-fo'-nnffin' critter as dat Irish ^al am! {tc 
Biddy) Why on nirth doaii you finish dustin' dis yer room? You 
jes wnnt to sot in dat ar' cheer and howl, wliile somebody else done 
do all de work I Can't sing no more'n a jass-ax! 

Biddy, (throuis duster at Dinah) Take that, ye dirty, ould nig- 
ger ! I'll larn the likes of ye ter consult me! 

(picks up duster — rushes at Dinah 

Dinah. Go long dar, you red-headed, good-fo'-nuffin' trollop I 
You'll mash my new turban, will you? 

Dinah snatches up sofa-pillmc — business-— Dina'r strikes Biddy with 
pilloin, pushing it completely over her head and rushes from the 
room. After floundering around, Biddy extricates herself and 
exits, L. 

Enter, Grace and Helen Morton, r. 

Helen, (th roving herself on sofa) VYas ever anything more ex- 
asjierating? Here I've torn a great three-cornered hole in my new 
suit, and 1 Avas calculating to make an impression on 3'oung Feath- 
erby this afternoon! 

Grace. Pshaw ! Who cares for that simpleton? 

Helen. Tozt have tried hard enough to captivate him, anyway; 
and I tell you, something must be done pretty soon or we will be 
driven to the wall. 

Grace. My dear, such an expression! (seesjofa-pillow on floor) 
Jumping Jupiter! Look at my pillow ! 

Helen. That is a very line expression, I suppose! 

Grace. Well, you can aUbrd to be sarcistic. You gobbled up all 



'^ TWO AUyr EMILYS ; QB, QUITS. 

the money we had to lua the house with, to buy your new suit. 
Little vou c.ire how the h(ni.>e looks if you can dress well. 

Helen. Well, 1 wonder who took all the money mamma had 
saved for Belle's wardrobe, to buy a new silk dress? That was 
M'hen you were trying to catch Feathcrby— before you thought you 
were going to get Aunt Emily's money. 

Grace. What does Eelle want of a stack of nice dresses in that 
pokey old boarding school? You may say what you please, but 
when we received Belle's letter, saying she had found Aunt Emily 
rolling in gold, 7jou Mere the first one to propose inviting her here 
to make us a visit. 

Helen. And a big fool I was, too, for she has been here almost 
thirteen weeks, and we have seen no signs of her money yet, and 
sometimes I doubt if she has any at all— Belle is so fond of playing 
jokes I She mortifies me almost to death ! Why, only last evening, 
she asked Featlierby if his ma wove the stufl" his pants were made 
of. The old idiot ! 

Enter, Aunt Emily, l. — Helen rises liastlly from sofa, and Grace 

from chair. 

Helen, {speaking loudly) Sit right down here on the sofa, auntie 
dear! You look real tired. 

Grace, {jostling against Helen in her haste to assist her aunt) 
Take this rocker — it is much easier than the sofa. 

Aunt Emily sits on sofa — places sofa pillow at her hade, stripping 
the cover off, leaving the pillow bo.re. 

Grace, (aside ?o Helen) The old fool has finished that-pillow^ ! 

Aunt Emily. 1 feel a cold comin' on. I've jest been out wnrmin' 
my feet by the kitchen fire, and come in to see if you gals w^ouldn't 
like to go down to tlie 'pothecar)" shop on an arranc for me. 

Helen, (loudly) Why, certainly, auntie, we would be delighted 
to go ! I am sorry you have a cold. 

Grace, (loudly) To doi your shopping would be the greatest of 
pleasures! (aside to IIklvik) What in the world do j'ou suppose 
she *vants? (runs and gets shaicl) Here, auntie, put this over j^our 
sliouldersi One always feels chilly when a cold is coming on. 

Aunt. I don't want no shawl — and I do wish you had more man- 
ners than to break in so Allien a body is talkin'. Here I've been 
wailin' to git a chance to tell you what to buy for my cold ; but you 
both talk ter once so — La me! When I w'as a gal, youns: folks 
showed more respect to their betters. AVell, as I was sayin', I w^ant 
you to go and buy me five cents worth of snuff, and a couple of 
pounds of onions, for I've got a desprit cold comin' on, ami nothiu's 
better than snutfand onions to break it up. 

Helen. Yes; (aside to Ghack) As if I would buy auythino- 
like that! 1 wouldn't if she was dying. 

Aui^T Emily, after nodding a few times, drops her head forward and 
begins to snore loudly. 

Grace. Neither would I — not if I never get a cent of her money I 
We will hire Biddy to get them. 

Helen. I'm glad Belle isn't here ! She would make us the laugh- 
ing stock of all our acquaintnncrs, by rp.lating the dilemma into 
Wliich this dreadful old woman lias driv-en us. 

Grace. There is something stiange about this affair. You re- 



TWO AUNT EJIILY;S; OB, QUITS, B 

member that Belle, soon after cretting settled at boarding-school, 
wrote us that she had found Aunt Einlly, and that she was "rollint^ 
in o:old." 

^ Helen. Yes; and v/hen I wrote, tellhig her that we were de- 
lighied to know that the old lady was so well off, and that we had 
invited her to make us a visit, she answered not a word. 

Enter, Mrs. Morton, r., with telegram, 

Mrs. 3forton. Girls, I have just received a telegram from Belle, 
She is coming home to-day. 

Helen. Indeed I 

Grace, {reaching for telegram) Let me read it, mother! (takes 
telegram ami glances at it — Mrs. Morton sits in ,rocker) Why, 
Helen, she is comins: home to-day on the two-thirty train, and her 
teacher is coming with her! 

Helen. And it is past eleven o'clock, now ! What shall we do? 

Grace. Well, we must telegraph to her not to come, 

Helen. Yes, we must; for it will be impossible for us to keep up 
appearances through the whole vacation. 

Mrs. 31. Why, dear daughters ! You will do nothing of the 
kind. I am very mncli astonished at such a proposition. You 
surely must wish to have your sister spend her vacation at home. 

Gracs. Well, we do not wish her to come home, for she would bL; 
sure to offend Aunt Emily, and frustrate all our p'an?. 

31rs. 31. It is useless lor you to make further r*^moDstrance, as 
the}-- have probably started before this time. Belle and her teacher 
will come as she has planned. 

Aunt, {suddenlg awakes — speaks sharply to girls) Massy sakcs 
alive! Hain't you started yit? 

Grace. We will go now, dear auntie. 

Aunt. You're goin' down to tlie shanty P Well, why on airth 
can't you git my stuff/«s;? 

Grace, (shouts) We will I (girls exit r. 

Enter, Dinah, l. — flour on her hands and sleeves rolled up. 

Dinah. Xow, missus, it am no use. You mus' jess keep dis yoro 
(pointinij to Aunt Emily) bodderin' ole ripperate out ob de kitchen 
or I'll break slie tarnal ole neck — dat I will ! 

(Aunt Emily leans forioard — tries to hear conversation 

3Irs. 31. ^V'hy, Dinah, what is the trouble! 

Dinah, (again pointing to Aunt Emily) Dat dar meddlin' ole she 
debble done come out in de kitchen to warm she feet in de oben, an 
she took off she great canal boats ob shoes, an' done sot 'em right in 
my i^an ob riz bread. She done got no mo' manners dan a ole 
elephant. 

Aunt, (shaking her flst at DiK ah) You lie'n old black nigger ! 
Tryin' to spile my repetation, are ye? I never told you that 1 never 
eat a banana nor saw an elephant! 

Dinah. Doan yer 'gin to call me no names ! I nebber said 
nothin' 'bout yer ealin' — 

3Irs. 31. Hush, Dinah! Leave the room! 

Dinah, (to Aunt Emily) De day you die, dar'll be an ole 
woman hung, I b'lebe! Dat I do! (exit l. 

31 rs. 31. (goes to sofa — sits beside Aunt Emily — speaks loudly) 
Don't mind what Dinah says, Aunt Emily. Did I tell you I am 
expecting my daughter Belle to come home to-day? You have not 



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seen her since she was a child. She is sixteen years old and looliS 
very much as my sister Emily did at her age. 

Aunt, Well, I never see a nigger ?/ if, that wasn't as sassy as 
pizen ! (leans bach and closes her eyes 

Mrs. jM. Yoa remember after father and mother died, we chil- 
dren were separated, and 1 have not heard from my sister Emily for 
years — I do not even know if she is living. 

Aunt, (rousing up) Yes, I rememheV that old white hoss Sam 
'ised to have: he was all crippled up and spavined, tool 

Enter, Helen and Geace, r. 

Grace, {placing hag of onions and package of snuff on Aunt 
Emily's lap) . Here are the articles you desired for your cold. I 
hope they v^'ill prove efficacious, (aside) I certianly think they 
ought to ! 

Aunt Emily turns onions out in her lap — then opens package of snuff 

and takes a pinch: 

Mrs. M. I must ?peak to Dinah about the dinner. (exit l. 

Aunt, (sneezes several times) My goodniss! this is powerful 
snuff — (sneezes) — hain't it? Lordy 1 Guess you got your mone3^s 
worth! (sneezes) lx& s>tvong as kiann pepper! Guess 1 won't take 
any more jist now ! (sneezes) I'll pu-t this in my pocket till bye'n 
bye. 

Helen, It must be powerful to make you sneeze so, auntie; but I 
suppose that is all the better for your cold. 

Grace, (fo Helen) I'll bet Biddy played a trick on her! That 
I'sn't sn?/.^ at all — that's cayenne pepper, or I'm no judge ! (sneezes 

Helen. Well, she seems to be quite i^leased with it. (sneezes) 
Heavens ! 

(old lady continues to sneeze — girls do same — bell rings outsMe 

Grace. Here's Belle I (sneezes) Mercy sakes! (sneezes 

Helen. WItli her teacher ! Oh, those dreadful onions ! 

Grace. Her snuff" is worse ! Quick — let's get out from here ! 

(girls exit R., sneezing 

Enter, Dinah, l. — deposits large dish of pudding in chair — proceeds 

towards ii. 

Enter, Biddy, l. — rushes ahead of Dinah. 

Dinah, (pushing her aside) You jess mind your own business! 
It am my place to tend dis yere doah 1 You'se done ready to poke 
your nose in to what don' nowa} s consarn you. 

Biddy. Faith, and it's mesilf as will be after tinding the door, 
now. Stand away, ye ould blnek hathin ! (tries to strike Dinah 

Dinah, (loudly) Hi, dar! Hi! Doan you dare to tech to me! 
(Biddy pushes Dinah backwards into the pudding 

Enter, Belle Morton antZ Miss 'Moimis, a., in time to vjitness the 

quarrel. 

Belle. Hello, Dinah ! (laughingly extricates her) It seems you 
and Biddy have been exercising a little for your health, [ presume! 
And 1 think there is sometliing on your dress — but don't mind now. 
Find mamma and tell lier I liave arrived. 

Dinah, (indignantly muttering to Biddy) You am jess de mos' 



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sassiest imp T'se ebber did see ! Dat a fae' ! 

(exit, Dinah, l., loith dish 

Belle. Biddy, call the airls! (exit Biddy, ix. — Belle shakes 
hands tcifh Avi^T 'Emi'ly) How do yoi.i do, auiiUe? You are just 
as pretty as ever. 

Enter, Helen and Grace, r. 
— {to girls) Hello, gills ! 

Aunt. What's thiit yon sny ? 

Jklle. (loud) Aunt Emllj^, (the girls motion and make signs for 
her to stop) this is my teacher. 

Aunt. Ilowd'y do, miss schoolmarra ! Hoyd'y do — how's your 
health? 

Miss Morris, (smiles) Quite good, I thank you ! 

(the girls shake hands with Belle 

Helen. So glad to see \'0u! 

Grace. 1 am delighted to have you home again, dear Belle! 

Uelle. (aside) But more delighted to have me away! (aloud) 
Gh'ls, this is my teacher 1 Miss Morris, my sister— Helen and Grace 
Morton ! 

Grace, (bowing Inyj) Delighted to meet you. Miss Morris. 

Helen, (boioing low) Belle's friends are always welcome here. 

2Iiss M. I am pleased to make your acquaintance. 

B(dle. (shouting to Aunt Emily) Isn't there something on your 
head, auntie? 

Aunt Emily jumps up, spilling onions all over the floor— :-clutches 
v:ikUy at her cap — pulling cap and false front off. 

Aunt. Homed rattlesnakes! What is it. a siDider? 

Belle. 1 meant your cap. You are nervous, auntie. 

Aunt. I declare, I never did see sich works afore : The peart 
hussy! (Helen /ie/ps her to replace headgear 

Grace. Belle, why in the world did you do that? We have been 
trying for the past thirteen weeks to keep her in good humor and 
now you have undone it all. 

Belle. (pa6sing chair to Miss Morris) T> seated, auntie I (to 
Grace) ^Vh.v were you so anxious to ple-i^o poor old Aunt Emily? 
1 remember when you and Helen left the house, ii you knew she 
was coming. 

Grace. Hush ! 

Helen. Will you novor lonrn better than to discuss private affairs 
lefor-e strangers? (to Miss jM(3kris) 1 hope you will pardon her 
Miss Morris — Belle is but a chihl. 

3Iiss M. Quite readily, I assure you ! Besides, I do not feel like 
a stranger, lias my name ceased to be familiar to your mother's 
children? 

Helen. Yourn.ame? 

Miss 31. Emily Moi'ris ! 

Grace. ?.ut my mother's sister? 

Belle. The very same — and our ivealthy Aunt Enul}^ for whom 
it will be needless to buy snuff or treat on onions, as she has no Idea 
uf departing this world at present. 

Miss M. "My child! 

Helen. Belle, how could you ? 

Belle. I had no idea of playing a joke when I wrote about Aunt 
Emily, and I had entirely forgotten that mamma's aunt bore the 
same name; but, reriiembcr that I owed you this for j-our o-reedi- 
iiess. 

Miss iV. I understand that you thought vour ojreat aunt possessed 



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property, and hoped by your land treatment to induce her to re- 
member you in lier ^vill. Mv dear girls, that was a selfish motive, 
yet I am glad that you have been kind to her. She was not always 
fretful and hard to please; but once stood between the cold world 
and her orphaned nieces— your mother and myself. In the future 
1 shall see that she is i)rovided with a home and comforts, {to Aunt 
Emily) Auntie, have you forgotten Emily Morris? 

Aunt. Noises? Yes, I s'pose so, but I've got sich a powerful 
cold in my head that 1 can't hear 'em. {calls) Biddy ! Biddy I 

Enter, Biddy, l. 
—Here, you git somethin' warm for the scboolmarm ter take in her 
stummick, and see if ye can't stop makin' sich a noise. 

Jliddy. And it's mesilf as takes no orders from the likes of ye, at 
all, at all i 

Ileie.i. {rings hell) Bridget, you may leave the room. 

Biddy. And, begorra, ye better be keerful like or it's mesilf as 
will be afte tillin' the names yez been callin' the ould woman ! 

Enter, Dinah, r. 

Dinah. Golly! I' se done hunted dis yere house all ober fo' de 
missus, and I 'clare I can't fin' her nowhar! 

Enter, Mrs. Morton, l. 

Mrs. M. How do you do, Belle ? 

Bella. Nicely, thank you ! How are you, motliei ? 
They emorace — Miss Morris turns around and faces JStKS. Moeton- 

Mrs. M. {starts forward) Your name? Quick! 

Miss M. Julia, do you know me? 

Mrs. M. Emily Morris ! Can it be possible you are my long un- 
heard froiri sister ? {kisses her 

3Ii8s M. Yes, dear Julia, and I was so glad to hear from you, J 
would have written immediately — but Belle wished me to wait ^nO> 
come home with her, letting her witness the surprise of you and 
your daughters; but from what your daughter Grace has just said, 
there seems to have been a most ludicrous mistake made in regard 
to poor Aunt Emily. (Belle laughs hearlihi 

Dinah, (laughing) He, he! Belle jess done played dat ar' joke 
slick as sliunk grease, su' nuff"! 

Biddy, {giggling) Faith, an it sarved 'em right, the decateful 
oraturesi And it's divil a bit they'll care about the ould Aunt 
Emily now! 

Dinah. 1 tink Belle eben wid 'em now, an' I done tink all de 
time she nebber could mean dat dar ole possum done hab any 
money. 

Biddy. But, begorra, it's mesilf as knows what kind of snuff to 
git, and sure the ould idiot niver dramed it wasn't snuft" at all, at 
all— but caj'-enne pepper : rDiNAii and Biddy laugh heartily 

Helen. Oh, Belle! How could you be so mean as to deceive us 
so? You don't seem to have a particle of regard for our feelings! 
(Helen and Grace look very much surprised and humbled 

Grace. Belle, you have taught us a lesson. I forgive you the 
joke and hope you will as readily forgive — I have been selfish and 
unkind; but hereafter I will endeavor to be a better sister. 

Helen. Had we listened to mother's advice, we might have been 
spared this scene. 

Belle, Well, girls, I guess we will call it ^^QuitsT* 

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Deuce is in Uim 5 1 

Did ; Dream it 4 3 

Domestic Felicity. ..~ 1 1 

Dutch Prize Fighter.. 3 

Diitchy vs. Nigger. .i ~. 3 

Eh? Wi at Did You Say 3 1 

Everybody Astonished 4 

Fooling with the Wrong Man 2' 1 

Freezing a Mother-in-Law... 2 1 

Fun in a Post Office 4 2 

Family Discipline 1 

Family Jars .» 5 2 

Goose with the Golden Eggs^ 5 3 

Give Me My Wife 3 3 

Han*, the Dutch J. P 3 1 

Hans Brummel's Cafe 5 

Hash 4 2 

H. M. S. Plum 1 1 

How Sister Paxey got her 

Child Baptiz d 2 1 

How She has Own Way 1 3 

How He Popped the Quest'n. 1 1 

How to Tame M-in-Law 4 2 

How Stout Your Getting 5 2 

In the Wrong Box 3 

In the Wrong ^lothes 5 3 

John Smith. .«j*. 5 3 

Jumbo Jum - 4 3 

Killing Time 1 1 

Kittie's Wedding Cake 1 3 

Lick Skillet Wedding 2 2 

Lauderbsujh's Little Surprise 3 

Lodgings for Two - 3 

Matrimonial Bliss 1 1 

Match for a Mother-in- Law.. 2 2 

More Blunders than one 4 3 

.Mother's Fool 6 1 

Mr. Hudson's Tiger Hunt 1 1 

My Heart's in Highlands 4 3 

My Precious Betsey 4 4 

My Turn Next 4 3 

My Wife's Relations i 4 



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186 My Day and Now-»-D«yt 

273 My Neighbor's Wife 3 

44 Obedience ...^.^ 1 

244 Old Clothe* 3 

33 On the Sly.. 3 

246 Othello 4 

57 Paddy Miles' Boy . 5 

217 Patent Washing Machine 4 

165 Persecuted Dutchman 6 

195 Poor Pilicody 2 

258 Prof. Bones 'Latest Invention 5 

159 Quiet Family „.„ 4 

171 Rough Diamond « 4 

180 Ripples 2 

267 Room 44 „ 2 

48 Schnaps ..». „ „ 1 

138 Sewing Circle of Period ..— 

115 S. H. A. M. Pinafore 3 

55 Somebody's Nobody 3 

243 Sports on a Lark 3 

232 Stage Struck Yankee 4 

238 Strawberry Shortcake 2 

270 Slick and Skinner 5 

1 Slasher and Crasher..... 5 

137 Taking the Census 1 

40 That Mysterious B'dle »« 2 

245 Ticket Taker 3 

38 The Bewitched Cloget...- 5 

131 The Cigarette 4 

101 The Coming Man- .«-«^ 3 

167 Turn Him Out .« 3 

68 The Sham Professor. 4 

54 The Two T. J's -.. «> 4 

253 The Best Cure 4 

28 Thirty-three Next BirthdAT.. 4 

142 Tit for Tat 2 

276 The Printer and His DeviU.. 3 

263 Trials of a Country Editor.... 6 

7 The Wonderful Telephone.... 3 

269 Unjust Justice 6 

213 Veru^nt Wool Dealer 5 

151 Wanted a Husband .«. 2 

56 Wooing Under Difficulties.... 5 
70 Which will he Marry 2 

l:i5 Widower's Trials «.« 4 

147 Waking Him Up.. I 

155 Why they Joined the Re- 
beccas „ 

111 Yankee Duelist.. 3 

157 Yankee Peddler 7 

ETHIOPIAN FARCES. 

204 Academy of Stars...............^ 

15 An Unhappy Pair „.. I 

172 Black Shoemaker 4 

98 Black Statue 4 

222 Colored Senators « 3 

214 Chops ^.,. 3 

145 Cuff's Luck.. .- «.. 2 

190 Crimps Trip ., 5 

249 Double Election ». 9 

27 Fetter Lane to Gravesend.... 3 

230 Hamlet the Dainty d 

153 Haunted House .>• 3 



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Incompatibility of Temper... 1 2 

Joe's Vis t ." 2 1 

Mischievous Nigger 4 2 

Midnight Colic 2 1 

Musical Darkey % 

Nobody's Moke »,... 5 2 

No Cure No Pay 3 1 

Not as Deaf as He Seems...... 3 

Old Dad's Cabin '2 

OldPompey 1 

Other People's Children 3, 

Pomp's Pranks ~ 2 

Quarrel ome Servants 3 

Roorfls to Let 2 

School - • - 6 

Seeing Boating....- «.... 3 

Sham Doctor «. 3 

16,000 Years Ago ^ 3 

Sport with a Sportsman «... 2 

Stage Struck Darkey ».... 2 

Struck by Lightning 2 

Stocks Up, Stocks Down 2 

That Boy Sam „ 3 

That Awful Carpet Bag 3 

The Select School 5 



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